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David Trimble

Politician

David Trimble is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	David Trimble · Devid Trimbl · Ντέιβιντ Τριμπλ · Девід Трімбл · Дейвид Тримбъл · 13 more...				[sources]
Alias	Baron Trimble · Barone Trimble · Daibhidh Trimble · David Trimble, Baron Trimble · David William Trimble · 23 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Trimble · Тримбл · Тръмбъл · デイヴィッド・トリンブル · 大卫·特林布尔				[sources]
Birth date	1944-10-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Belfast				[sources]
Death date	2022-07-25				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Country	Northern Ireland				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	David · William				[sources]
Last name	Trimble				[sources]
Political association	Conservative Party · Ulster Unionist Party				[sources]
Website	www.davidtrimble.org				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q192556				[sources]
Position	First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998-2001) · First Minister of Northern Ireland (2001-2002) · Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (1995-2005) · Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998-2003) · Member of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly (2003-2007) · 7 more...				[sources]
Education	Bangor Grammar School · Elizabethtown College · Queen's University Belfast				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-08-31

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Nicholas Trimble Politician	child	-	-
Daphne Orr Close Associate	spouse	1978

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the House of Lords	2006-06-02	2022-07-25

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,413

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,636

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,270

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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